The Court of Auditors has imposed a bail of more than 5.4 million euros on some forty former high-ranking officials of the Generalitat for the Government's expenditure on external action. But what is it that each of them has to pay? What does it mean that the bail is joint and several? The documentation that the court has provided to the lawyers lists the different concepts that are considered suspicious and the money that is requested as bail pending a trial to determine whether the expenses were made correctly or not. Depending on the charges involved in each chapter and their liability, the court sets the maximum amount that each would have to deposit provisionally. This is a maximum figure because the total of 5.4 million euros must be paid by all the defendants by agreement: in other words, they have to agree among themselves the amounts that each of them will assume until they exceed the five million euros, respecting the limit of money that the court establishes that each office can contribute. Technically, this form of payment is called joint and several surety.